July 16, 2005 (place)

I found another civilization in my computer-simulated universe today. Curious bunch of folks they are, on that tiny planet circling round that star. It doesn't look like they've established themselves on any other planets yet - still stuck on that one watery world. They don't even live in their oceans, with all that extra space in there - instead choosing to crowd around their coastal land areas. A bunch of slackers, it appears.

I tried to play around with some of them for a while, making them see and hear things they normally didn't. For a while, I wanted to make it appear as if another civilization had found them, to see how individuals would react. It wasn't very interesting. They would just run around and attempt some sort of communication with others, but nothing much came out of it in the end.

I got bored and moved on to bigger stuff. I found that by altering the temperature and moisture conditions in the warmer zones of their planet, I could set off large (well, large compared to them anyway) storms and send them flying off to their coastal areas. It was quite interesting to see them scurrying away.

I tried doing some sudden shifts in the rocky layer of their planet under their large cities. It would cause large numbers of their buildings to fall down. Not very good at building structures, it seems.

They're not very good at treating their injured either. Large numbers of them stopped moving after I finished playing with them. It was a little boring. I changed courses and for a while made changes that stopped storms and other disasters from befalling them, hoping to see more accomplishments out of them. They didn't seem to notice much.

I'm probably not going to have much to do with these folks after today. They're just not as interesting as some of the civilizations in other parts of my universe. Maybe I'll check back with them from time to time, just to see how they're doing, but that's about it.